The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness

Alnafisah, Mutleb; Goodale, Erik; Rehman, Ivana; Levis, John M.; Kochem, Timothy

doi:10.1016/j.system.2022.102906

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“…The general comprehensibility of pronunciations with high FL vowel conflations is 0.210 (calculated by dividing the number of correct transcriptions by the total number of segmental errors), and a much lower number can be found when it comes to low FL vowel conflations (0.448). This number is consistent with the findings of previous research, reflecting that high FL errors are associated with greater loss of comprehensibility than low FL errors [8]. 4 lists all the vowel conflations that occurred in the participants' performances into high or low FL category and ranks them in order of occurrence.…”

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An Analysis of the Effect of Functional Load on ESL Learners' Perception of Vowel Contrasts

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Functional load (FL), which ranks segmental contrasts based on their communicative value in pronunciation, is essential to the development of pronunciation instruction in that it indicates the priority of certain segmental contrasts that may seriously affect the intelligibility and comprehensibility of spoken language for English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. Despite the widespread use of FL in pronunciation pedagogy for ESL learners, there is little evidence on whether FL affects ESL learners perception of vowel contrasts. In this paper, 20 ESL learners from two Chinese universities are selected to participate in two tasks to observe their performance in discriminating vowel contrasts with different FLs in listening and word pronunciation. The effects of functional load on ESL learners perception of vowel contrasts are investigated in terms of both input and output dimensions. The overall findings indicate that high FL vowel contrasts are more likely to be captured in listening and more consciously distinguished in pronunciation, a piece of evidence proving the necessity of applying FL principle to English pronunciation teaching.

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“…For accentedness judgments, higher error frequency affected high FL errors only. The results confirm earlier findings for the usefulness of functional load as a metric for L2 pronunciation teaching, but raise questions about whether findings for extremes on the 10-point FL hierarchy reflect error gravity findings for the middle of the hierarchy [8].…”

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L2 English listeners’ perceived comprehensibility and attitudes towards speech produced by L3 English learners from China

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2024

International Journal of Multilingualism

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The impact of functional load and cumulative errors on listeners' judgments of comprehensibility and accentedness

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An Analysis of the Effect of Functional Load on ESL Learners' Perception of Vowel Contrasts

An Analysis of the Effect of Functional Load on ESL Learners' Perception of Vowel Contrasts

L2 English listeners’ perceived comprehensibility and attitudes towards speech produced by L3 English learners from China

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